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Music - The Greshams

The Greshams performing at the Dodge City Days Breakfast with Barry Ward.
John Gresham, Barry Ward, Gayle Gresham

John and Gayle Gresham are a husband
and wife duo from Elbert, Colorado performing songs of the West with a touch of
bluegrass. John (mandolin) and Gayle (guitar) have sung in harmony and played together
in several local western-gospel and bluegrass-gospel groups over the years.
Their daughter, Kate, also plays bass with them.

Learning about a convicted cattle
rustler in her family tree sparked Gayle’s interest in Colorado history when she
was young. Digging into her family’s stories, she discovered tales of a hanging,
a shoot-out, and a jail break from the Buena Vista jail. This led to writing
songs based on the stories.

Original songs include “The Shadow of
the Murdered Man,” a widow’s lament for justice for the vigilantes who hanged
her husband as a cattle thief and the rollicking jail-break song titled
“Freedom in January."

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A cattle rustling story in my family history caught my interest when I was young. It led to a love for researching Colorado history and genealogy. Writing a book based on the story became a passion. I started sharing my research adventures in Colorado history and genealogy in speaking engagements and my blogs, Colorado Reflections and Echoes of Elbert County. And nobody was more surprised than I when I began to write songs based on the story.